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Rae Allen

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Actor 1926–2022 On stage 19541972

Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo (July 3, 1926 – April 6, 2022), professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades. Allen started her career in theatre in 1941 in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan and made her debut on Broadway in 1948, moving to television and film roles in 1958, making her screen debut in Damn Yankees. She appeared in numerous guest roles in TV shows and was best known for recurring parts in sitcom All in the Family (1972–1973) and mob drama The Sopranos (2004). Her film roles included A League of Their Own (1992) and Stargate (1994).

On stage 9 productions, 18 years

1954 The Pajama Game St. James Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott & Jerome Robbins 1,063 perf.
1955 Damn Yankees 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 1,019 perf.
1956 Pictures in the Hallway Playhouse Theatre · Original · directed by Stuart Vaughan 19 perf.
1957 I Knock at the Door Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Stuart Vaughan 48 perf.
1964 Fiddler on the Roof Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins 3,242 perf.
1964 Traveller Without Luggage Anta Playhouse · Original · directed by Robert Lewis 44 perf.
1965 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Lewis 280 perf.
1971 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Melvin Bernhardt 108 perf.
1972 Dude Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Tom O'Horgan 16 perf.

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Worked with more than once5 names

Stephen Douglass 2 productions
Staats Cotsworth 2 productions
Kenneth Leroy 2 productions
George Brenlin 2 productions
Aline Macmahon 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast : Eddie Foy Jr. (Hines), Stanley Prager (Prez), Gordon Woodburn (Joe), Ralph Dunn (Hasler), Carol Haney (Gladys), John Raitt (Sid Sorokin), Reta Shaw (Mabel), Jack Drummond (First Helper), Buzz Miller (Second Helper), Ralph Chambers (Charlie), Janis Paige (Babe Williams), Thelma Pelish (Mae), Marion Colby (Brenda), Rae Allen (Poopsie…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Rae Allen, Jean Stapleton, Nathaniel Frey, Robert Shaferebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Barbara Harris, John Cullum, Titos Vandis, William Daniels, Clifford David, Rae Allenebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • There are minor likenesses as well-each includes an entertainment-at-a-rally number in Act Two just for the song-anddance of it, each had Rae Allen in the cast, and so on. What matters is how two shows so comparable in outline are so dissimilar in effect. The Pajama Game, from Richard Bissell's 7'/z Cents, treats labor relations in a midw…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • With the exception of Michael Dunn, Bill Redfield and Rae Allen, the 33-member cast consisted mainly of youthful refugees from Hair as well as Jesus Christ Superstar. In August, the company went into rehearsal at the Ukrainian National Home on East 9th Street.ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
  • Even so, Redfield and Rae Allen (who played Adam and Eve) were forced to write some of their own dialogue. "We had to. It was either write it or stand mute in the confusion."ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt

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